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China and Japan ETFs dominated the week's money flows. Combined, they pulled in roughly $18.6B in net inflows over the past seven days. That dwarfs every other regional story in the data. China attracted $13.8B in net…
Boston Scientific absorbed a wall of analyst target-price cuts last week. The stock has since fallen to $43.50, sitting further below August's insider buying levels. Ten firms lowered their price targets in two days…
Democrats winning Senate control overnight is the dominant story Wednesday. Options markets reacted immediately. SPY saw a surge in near-term hedging activity, with contracts concentrated in the next two weeks.…
Midterm results are reshaping options sentiment across US markets. Democrats winning Senate control triggered a flurry of activity in broad market ETFs overnight. SPY has 19 active expiry dates through January 2027,…
Honda, Sony and SoftBank are among the standout names on a packed earnings calendar running through to Monday. The week tilts heavily toward Japanese industrials and US media. COR Cencora holds its Q4 earnings call…
VU heads into tomorrow's earnings release with its borrow market at a historic standstill and six analysts pointing to roughly 50% upside from current levels. The lending picture remains as extreme as reported…
Modivo reports Thursday with availability near zero, short conviction unchanged, and the stock down on the week, leaving almost no slack in the lending market ahead of the print. The borrow picture has tightened…
Short sellers have nearly doubled their position in LIME over the past month. Estimated short interest reached 3.18 million shares on November 2, up 97% from roughly 1.6 million shares five weeks earlier. The…
EROK reports its first post-IPO earnings today with the borrow market loose but short positioning moving quickly in the wrong direction for bulls. The lending picture shows no squeeze pressure, but the direction of…
ECG heads into its November 4 print on a sharp divergence from the rest of its sector, up 9.5% on the day and 10.8% on the week while most close peers have sold off. The contrast with the peer group is stark. FIX fell…
PACS Group reports Q3 results today with the market's attention drawn less to its positioning in the lending market and more to a steady stream of insider sales in the weeks before the print. The CEO and co-founder,…
SDRL is the least shorted name in its peer group heading into today's print, yet options traders have swung to their most defensive posture on record. Short interest at Seadrill has been falling for weeks and now sits…
QuidelOrtho reports Q3 results today carrying one of the more striking turnarounds in its own positioning: a stock that collapsed 64% in the year to September has gained 31% in a single month, and the bears who built…
Short sellers have been adding to positions in SGHC at an accelerating pace, with estimated short interest rising 12.2% over the past week to around 31.6 million shares, the highest level in at least a year. The…
Among its closest semiconductor peers, ALAB is the outlier this week, and not in a flattering way. While LSCC slipped 3%, LRCX fell 4.2%, and AMD dropped 12%, Astera Labs lost 18.5% over the same five sessions, nearly…
NVTS heads into its Q3 earnings report today carrying one of the more heavily shorted positions in the small-cap semiconductor space. Short sellers have built a meaningful position in Navitas Semiconductor. At 22.3% of…
DUOL dropped 9.4% over the past week to $128, a sharp move against a median gain of 6.6% across its closest correlated peers, and the decline arrives the day before Q3 results with short sellers sitting on 17.8% of the…
GXO Logistics reports Q3 results today with options traders positioned more aggressively to the upside than at almost any point in the past year. The clearest pre-earnings signal is in the options market. The put/call…
Jackson Financial reports Q3 results today with short sellers quietly adding pressure even as the stock trades near a one-month high. The clearest positioning signal is that short interest has been building steadily.…
OUST arrives at its November 5 earnings release carrying one of the more striking divergences in the sensor hardware space: a stock down 35% in a month, analyst targets clustered well above the current price, and short…
